This issue did exist, that's why many Melda's plugins got an easy screen during their development.
Re. the GUI (lajosuti): You can't satisfy them all. In addition trends come and go. And it's totally understandable that you or others don't like the "coloured Excel-sheet" look. But afair Vojtech made his UI decision not due to visual reasons but for speed of development. Those of us who don't care about the look profit from this as he spits out plugins in world record time. Here's where the process optimizing strategy shows its muscles.